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November 30, 2012

Of course, I've already shown the Land Raider. The remaining additions gave some much needed speed to my force. The bike squad and attack bike will be fielded as one unit and the Assault Squad will normally support the bikes or the Vanguard Veteran squad.

Basically painted over the course of four months! I discovered that by alternating between the Space Marines and Tyranids, it was easier to keep the drive going and not burn out slapping the same colors on models day after day. It was also easy to paint 500-points a month and left me time to work on other projects.

When I started this project, part of the goal was to paint things I had tucked away in my game room. The only thing I purchased for the Red Scorpion army were the Assault Marine box and the Land Raider doors from Forge World. After all this, I STILL have enough unpainted kits to add another 1000 points easy, but I am planning on starting ANOTHER Space Marine army for 2013 that I've wanted to do for a very long time...

Anyway, this was a fun experiment - next month will see the completion of my 2000 point Tyranid army!

November 25, 2012

Warfare Miniatures will soon be offering 132 variants on
Cuirassiers for the period 1670 - 1721. This is achieved by having 22
sets of 3 unique sculpts available on both Standing or Galloping horse
variants. The range covers English, Irish, Dutch, French, German,
Danish, Bavarian, Austrian Imperial Circle, early Swedish, Saxon,
Spanish and a wide variety of smaller states from the Scanian Wars
through Sedgemoor, Ireland, Flanders 1689-1697, Rhineland, Italy,
Eastern Wars, Great Northern War, WSS in Flanders, Spain and Germany.

English helmets, Continental Helmets, Hats, Tricornes, Bareheads with
wigs and without, bandaged too. Cuirasses over coats under coats and
front plate only. Musicians with arm variants playing and resting.
Lances for standards with attachable finials and cords, arm variants
with pistols cocked, firing, swords at rest, up right and extended,
officers arms waving hats or tricornes.

November 7, 2012

Two billion dollars and 18 months of campaigning and the country ends up with essentially the same situation in Washington. Poor (or no) leadership on both sides. A bitterly divided government that won't be able to pursue any meaningful agenda for the future. Normally I hope for gridlock in D.C. because I think the less they accomplish, the better off we are. There are serious problems facing the country and I see few ideas offered to fix things and even less chance of both sides coming together even make the attempt.

November 2, 2012

This gives me one HQ, five Troops(!), one Elite (or two if I split up the Lictors), and one Heavy Support (a pair of Carnifex). Now for the fun part - because I already have so many Troop choices, getting to 2000 points in December will be easy with the addition of one of tank-sized monsters and one or two small units. I have no idea how effective this army will be on the table, but that is really secondary for now. When I get the chance to run some games, I can rework the list while I fill in extra units toward 3000 points!